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On 2025-01-25, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
> "There have been a lot of these satirical bills in the past; nobody
> expects them to pass but they're supposed to provoke a conversation
> about the man's role in pregnancy. In 2017, for example, a Houston
> Democrat filed a bill that would have fined men $100 for masturbating.
> In 2021, a Pennsylvania Democrat introduced "legislation that will
> require all inseminators to undergo vasectomies within six weeks from
> having their third child or 40th birthday, whichever comes first".
> While these stunts are funny, I don't know how effective they are.
> Anti-abortion extremists are zealots who aren't exactly swayed by
> satire."

So it's all just political theater, the performative equivalent of
jerking off in public?  (annoys everyone, accomplishes nothing,
generally not advised, idiots do it anyway).